Elaborates Quotes

#1. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

Mortimer J. Adler

#3. This chapter reveals and elaborates upon the exquisite beauty of protein structure.

Reginald H. Garrett

#4. Making money is one thing, paying tax is another.

Habeeb Akande

#5. Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

Kenzaburo Oe

#6. Did you like it? Juilliard?" I ask. "Was it everything you thought it'd be?"
"No," she says, and again, I feel this strange sense of victory. Until she elaborates. "It was more."
"Oh.

Gayle Forman

#7. The solution, she elaborates, is for couples to do novel and exciting things together (to release dopamine and get the romance rush),

Neil Strauss

#8. I have a wild game camera.

Jenn Suhr

#9. His wang is rubbed shiny," Josh elaborates. "For luck."
"Why are we talking about parts again?" Mer asks. "Can't we ever talk about anything else?"
"Really?" I ask. "Shiny wang?"
"Very," St. Clair says.
"Now that's something I've gotta see.

Stephanie Perkins

#10. Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated from language, which he then elaborates in order to 'express' what is happening to him: it is language which teaches the definition of man, not the contrary.

Roland Barthes

#11. A diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.

Margery Wilson

#12. Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Judith Viorst